John Irving

John Irving still writes books the old fashioned way – longhand on pen and paper. He doesn’t tweet, but if he did, we could expect 140 character musings about Vienna, bears, sexual anomalies, New England, and of course, wrestling — all themes that appear again and again in novels like The World According to Garp and his latest, In One Person. Irving famously begins his novels by constructing the final sentence: he doesn’t write the rest until that sentence is perfect, and his final sentences never change. And his best are perfect tweets: “In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases.”